Last time I stopped by everyone here was all gun-ho about George W. Shrub. Why is it no one is clamoring for his re-election this time? Did reality finally set in?
Last time I stopped by everyone here was all gun-ho about George W. Shrub. Why is it no one is clamoring for his re-election this time? Did reality finally set in?
If nothing else, no one is clamoring for his re-election because he isn't running again.
It figures you'd still be taking up for him. I guess Shrub finally got wise and realized he didn't stand a chance of getting re-elected after the way he screwed up the country.
Re ''Soft Shoe in Hard Times'' (column, March 16):
Surely it must have been a slip for Maureen Dowd to align the artistry of my late husband, Gene Kelly, with the president’s clumsy performances. To suggest that ”George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly” represents not only an implausible transformation but a considerable slight. If Gene were in a grave, he would have turned over in it.
When Gene was compared to the grace and agility of Jack Dempsey, Wayne Gretzky and Willie Mays, he was delighted. But to be linked with a clunker — particularly one he would consider inept and demoralizing — would have sent him reeling.
Graduated with a degree in economics from Pitt, Gene was not only a gifted dancer, director and choreographer, he was also a most civilized man. He spoke multiple languages; wrote poetry; studied history; understood the projections of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. He did the Sunday Times crossword in ink. Exceedingly articulate, Gene often conveyed more through movement than others manage with words.
Sadly, President Bush fails to communicate meaningfully with either. For George Bush to become Gene Kelly would require impossible leaps in creativity, erudition and humility.
Patricia Ward Kelly Los Angeles, March 16, 2008
Oh, snap! You get more truth in column inches in that letter than the last four years of Judy Miller’s tenure at the NY Times.
wow, you'll take shots at a guy for not dancing as good as gene kelly, but you have no problem with a guy attending a racist church for 20 years...you truly are an idiot..
Last time I stopped by everyone here was all gun-ho about George W. Shrub. Why is it no one is clamoring for his re-election this time? Did reality finally set in?
I guess they're simply no longer demanding a shrubbery. They seem to have gotten over that particular ni!-d.
This is not vengeance. This is pun-ishment.
"The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability." — Edgar Allan Poe
Kelly was a successful, old, movie star with loads of loot when he made Xanadu. In contrast, when the Duke got old and successful enough to make the movies he wanted, HE was smart enough to make a movie that told the truth about Vietnam:
Kelly was a successful, old, movie star with loads of loot when he made Xanadu. In contrast, when the Duke got old and successful enough to make the movies he wanted, HE was smart enough to make a movie that told the truth about Vietnam:
My point still stands that Wayne took a role he shouldn't have in a movie that was unredeemably bad - as did Kelly in "Xanadu."
If you wanna Duke it out with me, stay on the same page.
This is not vengeance. This is pun-ishment.
"The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability." — Edgar Allan Poe
wow, you'll take shots at a guy for not dancing as good as gene kelly, but you have no problem with a guy attending a racist church for 20 years...you truly are an idiot..
wow, you'll take shots at a guy for not dancing as good as gene kelly, but you have no problem with a guy attending a racist church for 20 years...you truly are an idiot..
I'm sorry.
I had no idea I was Gene Kelly's widow.
Still, for an old lady, she sure can write a withering letter.
There are some smackdowns that are just better than others.
Re ''Soft Shoe in Hard Times'' (column, March 16):
Surely it must have been a slip for Maureen Dowd to align the artistry of my late husband, Gene Kelly, with the president’s clumsy performances. To suggest that ”George Bush has turned into Gene Kelly” represents not only an implausible transformation but a considerable slight. If Gene were in a grave, he would have turned over in it.
When Gene was compared to the grace and agility of Jack Dempsey, Wayne Gretzky and Willie Mays, he was delighted. But to be linked with a clunker — particularly one he would consider inept and demoralizing — would have sent him reeling.
Graduated with a degree in economics from Pitt, Gene was not only a gifted dancer, director and choreographer, he was also a most civilized man. He spoke multiple languages; wrote poetry; studied history; understood the projections of Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. He did the Sunday Times crossword in ink. Exceedingly articulate, Gene often conveyed more through movement than others manage with words.
Sadly, President Bush fails to communicate meaningfully with either. For George Bush to become Gene Kelly would require impossible leaps in creativity, erudition and humility.
Patricia Ward Kelly Los Angeles, March 16, 2008
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Oh, snap! You get more truth in column inches in that letter than the last four years of Judy Miller’s tenure at the NY Times.
wow, you'll take shots at a guy for not dancing as good as gene kelly, but you have no problem with a guy attending a racist church for 20 years...you truly are an idiot..
This whole controversy reminds me of the time that Rush Limbaugh compared Bill Clinton to Eddie Haskell from "Leave it to Beaver" and the actor who played Eddie called up all upset to say that Eddie wasn't that bad.
